Jennifer, you write, "There is no reason why you can't prevent
mandates on those who don't self-insure." But that's just it:
states cannot put mandates on any employers, whether they
self-insure or not. The mandates are put on the insurance policies
that insurance carriers sell.
The only way I see that the federal government could prevent
states from putting mandates on insurance is if Congress makes
drastic changes to or repeals the McCarran-Ferguson act which gives
states the power to regulate insurance. Yanking power away from 50
state legislatures? Fat chance.
As for defining "affordable", I never said anything about
"sleight of hand." The problem isn't deceit. It's that the
definition of "affordable" will have to go through the political
process, subject to interest group pressures, politicians, and all
the rest. I think the last time government defined anything so as
to expand liberty instead of expanding government power was in the
late 1780s. That's why we should be concerned.
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